Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "oil"
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Assessment of environmental hot Spots in Iraq
(UNEP, 2005)It is estimated that Iraq has several thousand contaminated sites resulting from a combination of general industrial activities, military activities, post-conflict damage and looting. Many of the sites are derelict and ... -
CEP technical report
(UNEP, 1994)During the past two decades awareness of the steadily growing pollution of the coastal and marine areas of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) became increasingly apparent. In response to this concern, national research ... -
Desk study on the environment in Iraq
(UNEP, 2003)This Desk Study has been prepared by UNEP as a contribution to tackling the immediate post-conflict humanitarian situation in Iraq, and the subsequent rebuilding of the country's shattered infrastructure, economy and ... -
Energy - Our Planet Vol. 14 No. 3 2004
(UNEP, 2004)Access to energy is essential if the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the WSSD Plan of Implementation are to be achieved, and the proportion of the world’s people in poverty is to be halved by 2015. -
Energy subsidies: lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
(UNEP, 2003)This report builds largely on presentations and discussions held during a series of regional workshops on reforming energy subsides, organised jointly by UNEP and the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2000 and 2001. The ... -
Environmental assessment of Ogoniland
(UNEP, 2011)A major new independent scientific assessment, carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), shows that pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the region has penetrated further and deeper than ... -
Environmental management in oil and gas exploration and production
(UNEP, 1997)These guidelines provide an overview of environmental issues in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, and of the best approaches to achieving high environmental performance in all parts of the world. Management ... -
Environmental Problems of the Marine and Coastal Area of Sri Lanka: National Report - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 74
(1986)Regional Seas Reports and Studies by UNEP -
Industry sectorial approaches and climate action: from global to local level in a post-2012 climate framework
(UNEP, 2009)This Discussion Paper on Industry Sector Approaches to Climate Change is intended to assist negotiators, policymakers and other interested parties in the definition, development and implementation of sectorial approaches. ... -
Oil spill in the Kerch strait: Ukraine post-disaster needs assessment
(UNEP, 2008)The report lists recommendations to help Ukraine complete its recovery from the oil spill that occurred in the Kerch Strait in November 2007, when a severe storm caused the Volgoneft-139 to release over 1,300 tonnes of ... -
Renewable Energy - Our Planet Vol. 16 No. 4, 2006
(UNEP, 2006)The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine. -
State of the Marine Environment in the Black Sea Region -Regional seas reports and studies no. 124
(1990)This report shows how the understanding of the changing problems facing the marine environment is a continuing goal of UNEP's Ocean programme, as it provides the necessary scientific background for shaping UNEP's policy ... -
Sustainable, resource efficient cities making it happen!
(UNEP, 2012)This publication aims to formulate a broader framework of integration which is required for cities to transition to sustainable, resource efficient development and to realise green urban economic growth trajectories ... -
The last stand of the orangutan, state of emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia's national parks
(UNEP, 2007)The orangutans share their habitat with a wild range of other threatened and ecologically important species including the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhinoceros and Asian elephant. UNEP and the UN Educational Scientific and ...